Afridi, who is currently in Dubai, posted the video on his Twitter page.

March 30, 2016, NewsCrunch

Shahid Afridi has released a video apologising people of Pakistan for his team’s dismal performance in T20 World Cup.

Afridi says he seeks forgiveness from the people of Pakistan for not living up to their expectations.

"I don't care what other people say about me but I am answerable to you (people of Pakistan),” he adds.

Afridi ran into trouble during the tournament for saying he found more love in India than in Pakistan. After his remark triggered an outrage back home, he tried to make up for that by thanking Kashmiri fans twice for their support, this time drawing outrage from Indian officials.

Afridi, who is currently in Dubai, posted the video on his Twitter page. He is likely to be sacked as captain once he returns to the country.

Pak coach Waqar Younis had issued a public apology on Tuesday.

Video: Watch Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi’s apology to people of Pakistan– Forgive me, sorry we let you down

“Holding a lower rank post is humiliating. Like a Lt General forced to hold post of Brigadier,” Khemka tweeted

March 30, 2016, NewsCrunch

Ashok Khemka IAS, who was promoted as principal secretary by the BJP government in Haryana in January is still waiting for his posting.

He tweeted on Wednesday that he had been waiting for his new posting for the last three months.

“Holding a lower rank post is humiliating. Like a Lt General forced to hold post of Brigadier,” he said.

Khemka currently heads the low-profile Archaeological department as its Director General. When he was abruptly shifted to his present post from Transport department in 2015 he had termed it as a demotion.

Khemka had then pointed out that the rank of Director General or Secretary is given to IAS officers with 16 years of experience, while he had already completed 24 years in service.

An upright officer Khemka has been transferred 45 times in his career as all governments irrespective of the parties have found him inconvenient to work with.

He was particularly targeted by the Congress government led by Bhupinder Hooda after he cancelled a controversial land deal involving Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and real estate giant DLF.

The Hooda government set up its own inquiry and then charge-sheeted Khemka for "causing damage to Mr Vadra's reputation" and "illegally" cancelling the deal.

In November, the BJP-led government dropped the charge-sheet for "professional misconduct" filed against him.

It also promoted Khemka in January with six other officers, but failed to follow it up with a posting.

Awaiting posting on promotion for last 3 months. Holding a lower rank post is humiliating. Like a Lt Gen forced to hold post of Brigadier.

They had parked their car to entertain themselves by targeting the elephant (video below)

March 30, 2016, NewsCrunch

Four men have been arrested in Kerala for throwing stones at an elephant and its calf in Waynad last Friday.

After a video that caught them in action went viral, M Shameer (27), Abdul Razak (21), Shamal Hashim (21) and Riyas (26) surrendered before the Forest department officials on Tuesday.

They have been booked under Wildlife Protection Act and sent to a 14-day judicial custody.

As the video below shows the four tried to have fun in their weird way by pelting big stones at the elephant, which was standing peacefully with its calf.

They had parked their car at Muthanga, National Highway 22, to entertain themselves by targeting the elephant. The video shot from another car went viral on social media alerting the forest officials.

It was not difficult to trace them as their car number had also been captured in the video.

The elephant eventually got enraged and gave them a chase making them flee, said a few media reports. The angry animal could have attacked other vehicles as well, which were passing by on the same road.

Four donkeys arrested in Kerala for pelting stones at elephant and calf (Watch video)

Suresh Prabhu cancelled his appointments for March 8 and invited Mamata for lunch

March 31, 2016, NewsCrunch

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu was left red-faced early this month when his office mixed mistook TMC MP Mamata Thakur for West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.

Indian Express has an exclusive on the delicious mix up, which has so many twists and turns, it can fuel a top class Bollywood film.

It all started when Mamata Thakur’s private secretary Tapan Roy called Suresh Prabhu’s office for an appointment. She had a couple of issues, which are routine for the Railway Minister, and should have taken five minutes of his time.

But here is where the mix up started. Mamata Bannerjee’s long-time private secretary is also Tapan Roy and so the Railway Minister got excited that his predecessor was coming.

Suresh Prabhu cancelled his appointments for March 8 and invited Mamata for lunch and got ready with bouquets.

But just before the meeting someone thought it wise to check with the West Bengal CM’s office and the mix up came to light – it was Mamata Thakur not Banerjee, who was on the way.

Any Bollywood film would be proud to have what happened after that - a cancelled lunch and a very angry Suresh Prabhu who shifted some personnel from his office, including his private secretary.

Mamata Thakur’s private secretary has been now instructed to introduce himself as Tapan Roy Junior when he makes official calls on behalf of his MP.

Several passenger vehicles, including a bus, are trapped under the Kolkata flyover debris (video below)

March 31, 2016, NewsCrunch

A CCTV camera caught the exact moment, the flyover collapsed in Kolkata on Friday.

It shows normal traffic plying under the flyover on the busy Rabindra Sarani-K K Tagore Street. Suddenly, a portion of the flyover collapses and the debris – huge concrete blocks – pour on the cars and other vehicles underneath.

Several passenger vehicles, including a bus, are trapped under the debris.

Huge cranes and other rescue vehicles have been pressed into service to clear the debris and bring out the injured.

Dhoni called the journalist to the podium and asked him a series of questions about his retirement (video below)

April 1, 2016, NewsCrunch

India captain M S Dhoni gave an unusual response to an Australian journalist who asked him about his retirement after losing the T20 World Cup semi finals against West Indies.

At 34, Dhoni is among the older players in the international circuit.

Dhoni called the journalist to the podium and asked him a series of questions and made the journalist himself say that he was fit enough to last till 2019 World Cup.

While the episode had a touch of humour, Dhoni seems to be getting irritated with the questions he is getting at the press conferences. After the Bangla match he had blasted an Indian journalist, who felt that India has struggled to win the match.

Here's how the conversation went between Dhoni and the Australian journalist who asked him about his retirement